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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Blood-Light," what is described in the page 5 image "yellow metallic scissors"?
(a) Knitting needles.
(b) Chopsticks.
(c) Scorpions.
(d) Crayfish.

2. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker makes a reference to the "hundred-handed ones." Who were these figures?
(a) The wise women who control fate.
(b) The monsters that guard the gates of the underworld.
(c) The giant offspring of Sky and Earth.
(d) The ancient potters who created human beings.

3. In the page 27 lines from "Asterion's Lament," "Let me be your tender captain, ferry/ the ultramarine thread you unraveled"" what literary technique is being employed?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Epistrophe.
(c) Double entente.
(d) Apologia.

4. In "Wolf OR-7," the speaker describes a "tourmaline" dusk. What does tourmaline look like?
(a) It is a clouded and luminous orange.
(b) It is opaque, varying from red to orange.
(c) It is a clear yellow, but has green, blue, and pink occlusions.
(d) It is clear, with hues shifting from green to pink.

5. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?
(a) It portrays their pride in their heritage.
(b) It develops the poem's lighthearted tone.
(c) It foreshadows the poem's ending.
(d) It portrays them as underdogs.

6. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
(a) The drone is following someone.
(b) The drone has crashed somewhere.
(c) The drone is taking photographs.
(d) The drone has wounded someone.

7. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Personification.
(c) Allusion.
(d) Metaphor.

8. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," when the speaker says that "Maps are ghosts," what technique is being used?
(a) Malapropism.
(b) Synesthesia.
(c) Simile.
(d) Oxymoron.

9. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "ichor." What does this word mean?
(a) A strong desire to engage in sexual activity.
(b) The wine that the gods drank on Mount Olympus.
(c) The substance that the Greek gods had instead of blood.
(d) A prolonged period of lazy satisfaction.

10. In "Catching Copper," what technique is used in the strophe about the brothers dancing, on page 10, when the dance "The worm" is mentioned?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Double entente.
(c) Sarcasm.
(d) Anthropomorphism.

11. What vehicle is mentioned in the opening of "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word"?
(a) Taxi.
(b) Ambulance.
(c) Airplane.
(d) Subway train.

12. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the speaker's objection to her lover saying, "You make me feel like lightening" (15)?
(a) She associates lightening with whiteness.
(b) She associates lightening with rain.
(c) She associates lightening with violence.
(d) She associates lightening with Manhattan.

13. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker addresses a lover who is not present in the poem. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Personification.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Hyperbole.

14. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
(a) A bomb.
(b) A carnivorous plant.
(c) A jaguar.
(d) A train.

15. In "Blood-Light," what is the speaker imagining with the words, "Don't you want a little light in your belly?"
(a) A way to communicate genuine joy.
(b) Her mother's motive for constantly trying to feed her.
(c) How to tell her lover that she wants them to have a child.
(d) Her brother's motive for trying to stab her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the speaker refers to "Atman." Which idea is this Hindu concept related most closely to?

2. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the red light metaphorically compared to?

3. What does the opening of "Postcolonial Love Poem" claim that moonstones can do?

4. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," what kind of person does the speaker want to love her?

5. On page 23 of "Run'n'Gun," the speaker says, "we became coyotes and rivers." What technique is being used in this line?

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